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08/07/2006, 14:37

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AoA read order question?

So I've started reading my newly amassed collection of Age of Apocalypse books. Based on what JGonspy , Uncanny X-Men.net, and Wikipedia, I began with reading the two X-Men Chronicles books. However, half way through #2, I felt like I was lost, and had jumped ahead in the story line. Looking at some of the ads and promotional things, it starts taljking about X-Men: Omega and the #4's of the team minis (Astonishing, Amazing, Weapon X, etc).

Should X-Men Chronicles #2 be read before the #4's and the X-Men Omega, after the #3's?

Or should I just continue with the lists? If I do, will what seemes to be a point further down the road in the story, be clarifed by other issues as I go along?

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08/07/2006, 14:41

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Well, guess I found the answer I was looking for:

Quote : Originally Posted by UncannyX-Men.net

To comment on the books that are set in before X-Men Alpha, the "real" start of the crossover :
X-Men Chronicles and the Tales of the Age of Apocalypse deal with important turning points and backstory of the X-Men and other important characters of the event. Same can be said about the first three short stories of the X-Men: Age of Apocalypse One-Shot. The X-Men’s first battle with Apocalypse, the death of the Scarlet Witch, Logan and Jean Grey leaving the X-Men, Corsair returning to Earth and meeting his sons, Colossus and Shadowcat quitting the X-Men to start Generation Next, and Sabretooth taming Wild Child are among the addressed episodes.

X-Man #minus 1 is a flashback of X-Man's creation in Sinister’s labs; X-Man Annual '96 has Nate going back to the AoA but there he arrives in the past and witnesses a fateful meeting between Forge and Magneto. Both issues were released much later than the original crossover when X-Man already had his own series set in the regular Marvel Universe.

Not really needed for the crossover are :
X-Universe #1-2 deals with the non mutant characters. It only helps to answer questions why none of the other Marvel heroes interfered with Apocalypse.

Age of Apocalypse: The Chosen is a book of files about what Apocalypse thinks of the other characters. Kind of comparable to Stryfe's Strike File around the X-Cutioner's Song crossover.

Blink’s own four issue limited series takes her amnesiac into the Negative Zone, from which she later returns after encountering Blaastar and Annihilus. The last three pages of issue #4 flash forward to the end of the Age of Apocalypse and show Blink getting teleported away from the timeline shortly before it was apparently destroyed.

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08/07/2006, 23:38

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Posting this, so that I can print it from work tomorrow. If anyone has anything to add or subtract to it, please do. Every list I find for a read order seems to be very different when it comes to the set up issues and side stories.

This read order was taken from UncannyX-Men.Net

Suggested order to read the AoA:

01) X-Men: AoA One-Shot [3rd story]
02) X-Men Chronicles #1
03) X-Men Chronicles #2
04) Tales of the Age of Apocalypse #2 (By The Light)
05) X-Man #minus 1
06) X-Man Annual '96
07) X-Men: AoA One-Shot [2nd story]
08) Tales of the Age of Apocalypse #1 (Sinister Bloodlines)
09) X-Men: AoA One-Shot [1st story]
10) Blink #1
11) Blink #2
12) Blink #3
13) Blink #4
14) X-Men Alpha
15) Generation Next #1
16) Astonishing X-Men #1
17) X-Calibre 1
18) Gambit and the X-Ternals #1
19) Weapon X #1
20) Amazing X-Men #1
21) Factor X #1
22) X-Man #1
23) Amazing X-Men #2
24) Factor X #2
25) Weapon X #2
26) Gambit and the X-Ternals #2
27) X-Calibre 2
28) Astonishing X-Men #2
29) Generation Next #2
30) X-Man #2
31) Age of Apocalypse : The Chosen
32) Astonishing X-Men #3
33) Factor X #3
34) Amazing X-Men #3
35) X-Calibre 3
36) Weapon X #3
37) Gambit and the X-Ternals #3
38) X-Universe #1
39) Generation Next #3
40) X-Man #3
41) Astonishing X-Men #4
42) Generation Next #4
43) X-Calibre 4
44) X-Man #4
45) Factor X #4
46) Gambit and the X-Ternals #4
47) Amazing X-Men #4
48) Weapon X #4
49) X-Men Omega
50) X-Universe #2
--) Last three pages of Blink #4
51) X-Men: AoA One-Shot [4th story]
52) X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #1
53) X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #2
54) Exiles #60
55) Exiles #61
56) X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #3
57) X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #4
58) X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #5
59) X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #6

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08/07/2006, 23:53

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have they been collected into trades by any chance?

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08/08/2006, 00:02

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Quote : Originally Posted by tyroman

have they been collected into trades by any chance?

As I understand it:

Only the X-Men Alpha & Omega

Excalibur #1-4
Weapon X #1-4
Amazing X-Men #1-4
Astonishing X-Men #1-4
Generation Next #1-4
Gambit & The X-Ternals #1-4
Factor X #1-4
X-Man #1-4

Of the original series and :

X-Men: Age of Apocalypse and the One -Shot that was out last year.

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08/08/2006, 00:25

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Actually, there is a AoA "Complete epic" that is out. So far, 3 volumes have been released.

The first volume includes a lot of the stuff pre-Alpha (including Blink 1-4, and the death of SW/creation of Holocaust). It also includes the AoA: The Chosen. Vol 2 starts with Alpha and includes the first issues of every title, and some second issues. Vol 3 includes the rest of the second issues, and some 3rds. Supposedly, Vol 4 wil contain everything up to Omega, and I don't know if they have anything else planned after that.

As far as I know, the individual title trades are pretty hard to come by, but the ones I listed have all come out in the last year or so, so you shouldn't have a problem getting your hands on them. Plus, they are pretty much in chronoligical order story-wise.

Also, I think the Exiles Crossover is out in trade, but I haven't seen the X-Men:AoA trade yet.

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08/08/2006, 00:38

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Quote : Originally Posted by Psylockeslover

Actually, there is a AoA "Complete epic" that is out. So far, 3 volumes have been released.

Do you have these? If so, can you (or anyone) list the order in which the issues are set up to be read? It would be greatly appreciated, as every online source that I've used, has had some issues in different orders.

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The first volume includes a lot of the stuff pre-Alpha (including Blink 1-4, and the death of SW/creation of Holocaust). It also includes the AoA: The Chosen. Vol 2 starts with Alpha and includes the first issues of every title, and some second issues. Vol 3 includes the rest of the second issues, and some 3rds. Supposedly, Vol 4 wil contain everything up to Omega, and I don't know if they have anything else planned after that.

That's good to know, since when I asked originally, no one was able to answer the question for me.

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As far as I know, the individual title trades are pretty hard to come by, but the ones I listed have all come out in the last year or so, so you shouldn't have a problem getting your hands on them. Plus, they are pretty much in chronoligical order story-wise.

I was able to get all of the issues listed above with the exception of:

Blink 1-4 (Haven't picked it up yet)
X-Men: AoA One Shot (Bought when it first came out)
X-Men: AoA 1-6 (Bought when it first came out)
Exiles #60-61 (Bought when it first came out)

For cheaper than the trades, and I've seen these issues for cheap in most stores I've been in. Someone with some paitience, could save themselves about $50.00 in trade costs by doing so.

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Also, I think the Exiles Crossover is out in trade, but I haven't seen the X-Men:AoA trade yet.

Thanks for clearing that up...I can verify, however that the X-Men: AoA is on TPB, as I flipped through it recently. Not sure about the Exiles, though, as I just have the two issues.

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Here's a list of every trade that's been made.. The only thing I couldn't find, was Blink's series.

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